I watch far less TV than I used to, mainly because I spend so much time writing… but also there doesn’t seem to be the same number of programmes I’m interested in. I never was a real ‘telly addict’ but for a while, when I was on my own, I guess I did watch a little most evenings. On of the programmes which I made sure i watched every week (no way of watching again in those days!) was Northern Exposure.
Northern Exposure was set in Alaska and was about a young ‘sophisticated’ townie, a doctor from New York, who ended up practising in a small remote town. It was quite unrealistic and far-fetched and sometimes downright weird, but it had a fantastical and weird humour, strong, interesting characters who developed over many episodes.
There were lots of hilarious story-lines, sometimes running over many episodes, such as the DJ who wanted to build a trebuchet and fling a grand piano into a lake… why I can’t remember, but it made sense in the show! I still remember the vision of this huge piano flying through the air!
It ran for five years and there were over a hundred hour-long episodes, and lasted from 1990 to 1995. I remember being quite fed up when it came to an end, but on the other hand, it remained really good and there is nothing worse or more disappointing than a favourite TV show (or radio show, or series of books) which goes on too long and ‘outstays its welcome’.
Now i have bought a box set of Northern exposure… there are twenty-eight DVDs… good heavens, am I ever going to manage to watch them all?!
Lois Elsden 
Alaska was warmer than us this year and they had to move the annual dog sled race further north do to lack of snow. This time of year when the snow begins to melt sometimes the rivers get jammed up with ice and they overflow there banks. The Indians are sometime brought to town until the water recedes and they usually stayed at the Agoma Hotel on the main street.. A few years ago the hotel was demolished to make way for a new arena and I will never forget seeing a tattered group of them standing there awe struck looking at the empty spot where it used to be. I was really upset and felt sorry for them as they used to love there stay here and had so much fun.For the most part they are lovely people and a lot like children in a nice sort of way.
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I have never seen the series, but it sounds good fun! 🙂 Enjoy.
Lovely image, by the way.
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Dina – you would love it, so hilarious… but in a nice gentle wacky way! My image is from Iceland by the way.
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I loved that show and little did I know when I was watching it that I would end up living out my life in the wilderness of Northern Alaska. I was however surprised, when I moved here, how many ‘Alaskans’ did not like the show, but then I guess they thought the show was portraying them…. and not the ‘idea’ of the show taking being set in an Alaskan environment.
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